Pediatric Residency Program at Advocate Children's Hospital

A message from the program leadership

Thank you for your interest in the Pediatric Residency Program at Advocate Children's Hospital – Oak Lawn (ACH-OL), a free-standing children’s hospital on the campus of Advocate Christ Medical Center (ACMC).

For nearly five decades, our program has dedicated itself to the well-rounded training of future Pediatricians. We strive for balance in academic and clinical training by providing hospital and community-based primary and tertiary care opportunities to patients and families of vast socioeconomic and cultural diversity. We accomplish this goal by paying individualized attention to the growth and overall well-being of each resident and offer a challenging, yet nurturing atmosphere for residents to augment their strengths and achieve their utmost potential.

ACH-OL leverages the enormous opportunities available throughout the larger Advocate Children’s Hospital network of Advocate Health Care, one of the country’s largest and most respected not-for-profit health care systems. Our unique training environment provides residents the opportunity for a comprehensive pediatric experience, setting the foundation for a career as an exceptional primary or subspecialty care pediatrician.

Paramount to our training success are the incredibly diverse families we serve combined with an educational curriculum consistently putting your clinical exposures into meaningful and retrievable context. ACH-OL is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn. Oak Lawn is a “collar” suburb immediately adjacent to the city limits of the urban, largely underserved portions of the South Side of Chicago, serving patients and families not only from Chicago, but also its expansive south and southwest suburbs as well as portions of northwest Indiana and even more rural areas in north central Illinois. Within this diverse and densely populated geography are families with robust clinical, cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. Our dedicated faculty provide primary and subspecialty, medical and surgical care in which our trainees are integral in the care delivery and educational process within a high-volume, pediatric dedicated facility. Further, our residents gain invaluable exposure out of the hospital and in the communities, and even within the homes and schools, of those we serve providing a truly in-depth and all-encompassing understanding of health and wellness beyond merely diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Working with medical students from our core clerkship affiliates of Rosalind Franklin University’s Chicago Medical School and Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as fourth year medical students from across the country, the opportunities for teaching, as well as meaningfully impactful quality improvement and clinical research endeavors, under the guided mentorship of our faculty is readily available and supported. Given these opportunities, we are very proud of the commendations received from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for both our Community and Advocacy as well as Evidence-Based Medicine curricula, in addition to our outstanding American Board of Pediatrics Certification Exam passing rate and Pediatric Fellowship, Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine and Pediatric Primary Care placements upon program completion.

The Pediatric Residency Program at ACH-OL is committed to preparing residents to become outstanding pediatricians, critical thinkers, compassionate advocates and caring leaders. We hope you enjoy perusing our website and gaining more information about our free-standing children’s hospital and Pediatric Residency Program. Thank you very much.

Our overall program aims are:

1. Prepare trainees through foundational experience for competent and confident entry into individual career paths as life-long learners.
2. Provide specific experiences in Community and Population Health preparing trainees to care for the medically underserved.
3. Equip trainees to prioritize and optimize professional wellness.
4. Prepare trainees as effective collaborators and leaders of clinical, scholarly, quality improvement (QI) and patient safety interprofessional teams.
5. Promote the recruitment and training of inclusive and diverse trainees.
6. Enhance national recognition of our training program, trainees, and faculty.

Sincerely,